aral I find I go in similar “abstraction loops” for many things. Start off basic → try out an abstraction → try out a higher abstraction → and another → get tired of abstractions, return to the original/something similar. The process always informs me in useful ways, however horrible the intermediate results are ;)

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Laura Kalbag:
Avatars. Do they add anything to comments, or are they a waste of space?

laurakalbag they add significant value to conversations, as they provide a recognisable visual indication of who is speaking and where each comment starts/ends. I am inclined against comments, but would recommend having avatars if you do :)

In the evening (8:30pm) I’m off to a neo-folk session at the Steam Packet Inn, Totnes, with Robin from #buzz and some other musicians. Come along if you’re interested in playing trad/new trad/new medieval tunes!

Just pushed a plugin which auto–populates the #HTML<ins> and <del> elements with their little–known datetime and cite attributes. Hopefully, coupled with my article update histories and a bit of #js, this’ll allow for some native-HTML version control type stuff.